I frequently use Irssi for IRC, which is typically run from within a terminal. I have a launcher (.desktop file) set up to launch it with the appropriate Gnome Terminal profile, and that works fine.
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Quick question:
Has dragging windows between workspaces been partly disabled in the new release 14.10?
I can only drag left-right with ctrl+alt+shift+arrow. Dragging up-down does not work.
Can it be ...

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS... A viewport-switcher, or something similar is appearing repeatedly, like 5-50 times a sit-down session. After I tweaked some stuff it only does this now when I use the ...

Is there a program or utility that would let me map keyboard shortcuts for switching between open windows according to their relative placement on the screen? For example: I have three windows, one on ...

When I had both Vista and 7 I found one feature I was constantly using mostly because it looked cool while doing something was winflip, where all the windows were stacked in a full 3d card view when I ...

In Gnome, we have applications grouped up based on their type (like - games, accessories, et al). But in Unity, we need to manually type in the Unity to get the App.
Is there any keyword/utility to ...

Hitting alt-tab repeatedly toggles between the two most recently used windows. I would like to be able to hit key stroke that will always move me to the next window in a list. I want to map this key ...

With latest unity 5.20.0 on 12.04, following behavior is seen.
two app instances are open in Desktop-1, another two instance in Desktop-2.
If I used one terminal of Desktop-1 and switched desktop to ...

My system is Lubuntu, freshly installed, and has been working fine for a couple of days.
I don't know since when, but when I press Alt+Tab I cannot see my task switcher. Instead, some window border ...

There is a way in Ubuntu 14.04 to work with two different screens while the set of applications of each screen is individual, so alt+tab would not show all applications, but only the ones belonging in ...

When I minimize a window, normally I want to avoid it for a while. That's why I minimize it in the first place :) But in Ubuntu whenever I do it and use Alt+Tab to switch applications, that minimized ...

variants of this question have been asked, namely, how to place the switcher on both monitors when using compiz and when using Unity, neither are possible from what I see.
Having it on both monitors ...

Is there a tool that will let me do the following sequence?
Type a keyboard shortcut
Type in the name of an application currently open on some desktop
Hit Enter to switch to that desktop, and bring ...

Is there a keyboard shortcut, or can I somehow bind a shortcut, to switch between windows within an application, similar to ([opt]+[~] on OSX)?
Ideally, I'd like alt-tab to be un-affected, or to be ...

Is there any way to reduce the size of the default Ubuntu 13.04 window switcher icons, shown when pressing ALT+TAB? Changing Compiz settings (with a text editor, if not in the CCSM GUI) or installing ...

There is this minor detail in Ubuntu that if I am running two terminals at the same time, and I want to chose one of them using alt-tab I can't instantaneously do it, rather than I have to wait on the ...

I'm comming from Windows 7, and something that I loved there was to Alt+Tab in any Game or video and switch to another app without problem.
Here, I tried with Age of Mythology (Wine), that I play it ...

External vga connected monitor with laptop.
On windows when you press the projector hotkey/fn key on a laptop, you see a list of options or combinations of external projector and onboard screen, it ...

Staring with Ubuntu 13.04, the outline around windows when scale/spread (Super+W) and the switcher (when viewing different windows of an application using Alt+`) are invoked is red. See the pictures ...

Is there a solution on Linux similar to the Windows 7 Win+number, or Unity's Super+number shortcuts, which will also minimize the application if it is currently active and focused?
In Windows 7, if ...

The simple keyboard combination of Alt-Tab to switch between applications doesn't work.
I have followed this answer but it doesn't answer the question as I want to switch to another application, not ...

When using task switching in the default graphical mode of Ubuntu 12.04, if they are multiple windows of the same kind, eg. multiple Terminal windows, you can see them all together and select which ...

I am using GNOME-Classic and my window switcher is the Compiz Static Application Switcher. My problem is, when I press Alt+Tab, the switcher gives me the choice between windows of the whole workspace.
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If I understand correctly, each DE have their own Application Switcher (the thing we get by pressing Alt+Tab). My question is, can the Application Switcher be replaced with a different one?
I mean, ...